PNAC’s core doctrine was that, as the Cold War victor, America and US-based multinationals—particularly petroleum and pharmaceutical companies—had earned the right to rule the world for a century or so. PNAC members populated virtually all of the key foreign policy posts in the Bush White House. The warmongering cabal called themselves “The Vulcans” in honor of their belligerent brand of US imperialism. Their members included Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, and Rumsfeld’s advisers Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. Critics called them the
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